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LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013 New Drupal Plugin release for LoopFuse - now supporting Drupal 7 (D7) To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Marketing Automation cms d7 drupal 'We’ve updated the LoopFuse Drupal Plugin to support Drupal 7! Special thanks go out to: Shakeel Tariq at ValorTech for the Initial patch and Derek Gilmore from DMZ Interactive for updates and testing. Check it out! Let us know how things look. -
MARKETING ACTION | FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013 Marketo IPO Underscores Growing Value of Marketing In The Enterprise Marketing automation is no longer a solution afforded only by early adopters or technology enterprises. There is less than 5% penetration of marketing automation systems across all companies. We see a very bright future for marketing automation. Corporate marketing automation Annual growth is over 60%. Remember ACT!, -
HubSpot Releases Social Inbox and Reveals So Much More The data includes Web and email behavior captured directly in HubSpot, data imported from Salesforce.com, and whatever else the system has available. This sort of contact management is quite different from HubSpot’s traditional focus on attracting inbound traffic or even from conventional marketing automation. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013 Gartner Group releases CRM Lead Management Magic Quadrant for 2013 This report is valuable to the largest of enterprises who have significant budget available to invest in a complex and expensive CRM Lead Management system (aka, marketing automation). Congratulations to those identified as “Leaders” in the large enterprise segment of marketing automation (Oracle/Eloqua & Marketo). -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 Nearstream Social Campaigns Added to LoopFuse To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Marketing Automation Social Media nearstream social campaign 'We are continuing to integrate LoopFuse and Nearstream further and added a new selection from the “Campaign” menu in LoopFuse to make accessing Nearstream social campaigns that much easier!
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LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013 3 Keys to Successful Social Selling To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Marketing Automation Sales Thought Leadership social marketing automation social selling '“Social selling” is getting quite a bit of coverage and discussion these days and I suppose this blog post is evidence of that. Be helpful, answer questions. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 Lattice Engines Automates All Steps in Prospect Discovery What’s needed to fully exploit this resource is technology that automates the end-to-end process of assembling the information, identifying opportunities, and delivering the results to sales and marketing systems. Results can be exported to a marketing automation system or appear within the sales person’s CRM interface. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013 The Top Takeaways from Marketo Summit to Bring Back to Your Office and Implement As a CMO, I’m not necessarily hands-on with marketing automation, but I went to the Summit to optimize my plan for content marketing and sales and marketing alignment. Another suggestion was monthly refresher courses on marketing automation training, tips. Marketing automation often can show engagement by firm. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 CRM Series: How Much CRM Experience Do You Need to Be Successful with Marketing Automation? Michael Loop is the co-founder of Datarati , Asia Pacific’s Fastest Growing Data Driven Marketing Automation Agency. Michael has successfully delivered over 200 marketing automation and CRM implementations across the globe. How much do we need to know about our CRM system to be good at this marketing automation stuff?” -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 CRM Series: 3 Ways CRM Integration Creates Alignment and Drives Sales The company helps businesses generate and manage leads better through marketing automation processes and technologies. But in an age of marketing automation and CRM, it’s downright negligent. Quite simply, if you haven’t integrated your marketing automation program with your CRM, you’re flying blind. Still here? Now what? -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 ReachForce Buys SetLogik: One-Stop-Shopping for B2B Marketing Data Plus Database setlogik marketing database management data cleaning b2b marketing data marketing automation data cleansing setlogik acquisition data enhancement reachforceB2B marketing data vendor ReachForce today announced its purchase of SetLogik , which provides technology to build cloud-based marketing databases and do predictive modeling against them. -
B2B LEAD BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 ReachForce Acquires SetLogik and Launches the ReachForce Connected Marketing Data Hub Designed to integrate with leading marketing and sales automation platforms, like Marketo, Eloqua and salesforce.com, it supports marketing professionals to more effectively collect, qualify, target, and convert leads throughout the buyer’s lifecycle. It was clear what we needed to do to help, and the results are huge. -
B2B LEAD BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 ReachForce Acquires SetLogik and Launches the ReachForce Connected Marketing Data Hub Designed to integrate with leading marketing and sales automation platforms, like Marketo, Eloqua and salesforce.com, it supports marketing professionals to more effectively collect, qualify, target, and convert leads throughout the buyer’s lifecycle. It was clear what we needed to do to help, and the results are huge. -
B2B LEAD BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013 ReachForce Acquires SetLogik and Launches the ReachForce Connected Marketing Data Hub Designed to integrate with leading marketing and sales automation platforms, like Marketo, Eloqua and salesforce.com, it supports marketing professionals to more effectively collect, qualify, target, and convert leads throughout the buyer’s lifecycle. It was clear what we needed to do to help, and the results are huge. -
Marketo Files for IPO: Will High Growth Outweigh High Losses? By comparison, Eloqua lost just 7% of revenue in the year before its IPO, and even Salesforce.com, the benchmark for all Software as a Service (Saas) start-ups, lost just 20% of revenue in its final year as a private company. marketo ipo marketing automation software saas softwareCongratulations to them for reaching this step. -
VIEWPOINT | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013 Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing Incorporating a marketing automation system makes taking the "personalized approach" easier than ever, says NetProspex Vice President of Marketing Maribeth Ross. Marketing Automation Software That Delivers the Most Data Wins. Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. -
LOOPFUSE | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013 Building the business case for marketing automation The decision to invest in marketing automation requires the same scrutiny both in terms of whether it is appropriate for your business and will it deliver a return greater than your investment. Build your business case for marketing automation by actually using a marketing automation system. So there you have it. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013 Create a Leads by Score report in Salesforce.com to prioritize sales efforts We suggest creating a “Leads by Score” report in Salesforce.com with the following column headings: Once this is set up, LoopFuse will continually update the “Last Activity”, “Grade”, and “Score” fields so you can sort and prioritize sales outreach efforts. We’re happy to help! -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013 What's Your Lead Velocity Rate (LVR)? To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Lead Management Marketing Automation Sales Thought Leadership Lead Generation lead velocity rate lvrIf you run a recurring revenue business (SaaS, etc.) then this article by Jason Lemkin is well worth reading. ” Read the whole thing here. We would love you to try out LoopFuse here. -
WEBBIQUITY | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 Marketing Automation Systems are on the Rise Two common business terms combined describe the an increasingly popular outreach tool: marketing automation. According to marketing research firm Raab Associates , the marketing automation system industry will reach $750 million in 2013, growing 50 percent from 2012. What is Marketing Automation? Guest post by Gene Morris. -
TOMORROW PEOPLE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Tomorrow People Leaves Salesforce.com in Favour of Workbooks CRM 'Tomorrow People has selected British Cloud CRM provider Workbooks.com to replace its Salesforce.com CRM system after two years of using the Salesforce Professional Edition. The Workbooks CRM Edition delivers easy to use sales force automation, marketing management and customer support tools. About Tomorrow People. About Workbooks. -
TOMORROW PEOPLE | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Tomorrow People Leaves Salesforce.com in Favour of Workbooks CRM Tomorrow People has selected British Cloud CRM provider Workbooks.com to replace its Salesforce.com CRM system after two years of using the Salesforce Professional Edition. The Workbooks CRM Edition delivers easy to use sales force automation, marketing management and customer support tools. About Tomorrow People. About Workbooks. -
B2B LEAD GENERATION BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013 Sales and Marketing: The technology behind CRM The first technology that comes to mind is CRM software, such as Salesforce.com or Microsoft Dynamics. However, CRM technology potentially includes multiple pieces including email software and marketing automation (MA) solutions. The role of marketing automation. Marketing, Sales (and IT) alignment. -
THE POINT | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013 Measuring the True Impact of Marketing Campaigns: A Conversation with Bonnie Crater In 2011, she became President and CEO of Full Circle CRM , a company dedicated to helping VPs of Marketing use Salesforce.com to get accurate and useful performance data about marketing campaigns. HS: How are you different from marketing automation vendors like Eloqua or Marketo at addressing this issue? HS: Thanks Bonnie! -
MARKETING ACTION | MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013 Rapid Notify Sees 20% Leap in Closing Rates There were two main challenges: Find an automated email service that could scale with the company as it sped up outbound marketing. Rapid Notify is a happy Salesforce user, so requirement #1 was that an automation platform play very well with Salesforce. There’s much more to the story than just lower costs. -
B2B MARKETING INSIDER | THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencers On Twitter Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting – all in one place. You Marketingcloud – Marketing Cloud – An extension of SalesForce.com, an integrated way of utilizing SalesForce in the Cloud. Who are the top B2B Marketing influencers on twitter? Cambridege, MA – [link]. -
BIZNOLOGY | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013 New developments in B2B marketing list acquisition Many companies today use their marketing automation or CRM systems as their marketing databases, and populate them from a variety of internal and external sources. LevelEleven provides a cloud-based platform where sales managers can create fresh and compelling sales contests within Salesforce.com. Photo credit: Wikipedia. -
LOOPFUSE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2013 Move Beyond Basic Email Marketing with Prospect Activity Information and Automated Follow Up Emails The same can be said of marketing automation. No longer just for the largest companies with the biggest budgets, marketing automation is accessible and affordable for businesses of any size. This makes the ROI on a marketing automation investment quick and meaningful. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. -
Interactive 24x7 Content: Why Online Presentations Belong in Every Digital Content Strategy marketing automation tools to allow tracking of. your online presentations on pages that are trackable by your marketing automation system, and use. These presentations can be stored just a few clicks away in a library within your CRM such as SalesForce.com. data with your marketing automation platforms. The contenders? -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013 RedPoint Offers Broad, Deep B2C Marketing Automation On days when I have nothing else to be cranky about, I sometimes fuss at how business-to-business software vendors hijacked the term “marketing automation” despite its long and relatively honorable history describing systems for consumer marketing. One vendor taking advantage of this opening is RedPoint. The system was also designed to scale. -
LOOPFUSE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2013 A New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping - View Marketing Success Through the Sales Pipeline To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Customer Acquisition Marketing Automation Thought Leadership marketing metrics sales pipelineThere are many different dimensions to the marketing discipline and no shortage of pundits who expound on the merits and complexities of brand, position, etc. Where did they come from? -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012 Eloqua, Oracle & Why Modern Marketing Needs Open Systems This means, at a technology level, that integrations with leading CRM systems such as Oracle’s Siebel and other CRM systems, Salesforce.com, and Microsoft CRM are necessary. Marketing Efficiency b2b marketing crm Eloqua Eloqua Oracle deal marketing automation modern marketing Oracle -
LOOPFUSE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012 The Most Popular Blog Posts of 2012 As 2012 comes to a close, we look forward to an amazing 2013 helping our customers become better marketers through the power of marketing automation. Marketing Automation Blueprint – The Ultimate “How To” Guide. Lead Assignment Tips for Salesforce.com + LoopFuse. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. -
CROSS-CHANNEL CONVERSATION | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012 Four Questions for Neolane’s CEO on the Oracle Acquisition of Eloqua CRM vendors including Oracle, SAP, and salesforce.com have realized that marketing [.]. Marketing Automation Stephane Dehoche Posts[Posted by Stephane Dehoche, President and Chief Executive Officer Neolane] 1) What is your reaction to yesterday’s announcement of Oracle acquiring Eloqua? -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2012 Oracle Buys Eloqua: Winners and Losers for B2B Marketing Automation Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 The deal makes obvious sense, in that it gives Oracle a much stronger position in the fast-growing B2B marketing automation industry*. Okay, now we can talk about Salesforce.com. per share, which comes to $871 million. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 13 Events You Should Attend In 2013 As the former Managing Editor of DemandGen Report, Amanda covered the latest technology, trends and development in the marketing automation technology space, as well as the sales and marketing strategies central to demand generation. . by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Today’s guest post was written by Amanda F. Las Vegas, NV. 18-22. 22-23. -
MARKETING GENIUS BLOG | MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012 World’s Greatest #SocialCRM @Lead_Rocket Goes Public #Beta used Salesforce.com & LinkedIn a bunch. We plan to release more cool features every week or two – some of which include: merge contacts , Salesforce.com integration , Facebook/LinkedIn Pages support , google+ support , deals , contact history , and more. Engagement is what LeadRocket is all about. How could this be? -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 SiteCore Migrates from Web Content Management to Cross-Channel Customer Engagement Although I just compared SiteCore with decision management systems, its more immediate competitors are marketing automation vendors. Marketing automation systems still probably have advantages in analytics and other areas, although it’s hard to generalize. The approach to content is a more significant distinction. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012 MindMatrix Adds Sales Support to Marketing Automation One easily predictable trend in B2B marketing automation is that vendors will tailor their systems to specific industries. The reason may be that B2B marketing automation products have a narrower scope than B2C systems, meaning there’s less advantage in creating vertical editions. I'm sure plenty of other specialists exist as well. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012 Australia is Experiencing a Marketing Boom [CHART] You can see it everywhere from the launch of Salesforce.com’s Marketing Cloud to the incredible success of Eloqua Experience 2012. Marketing Measurement Australia Australia marketing b2b marketing Email Marketing marketing automationby Andrew Stanbridge | Tweet this There is no denying 2012 has been a big year for Modern Marketers. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012 CRM Expert David Taber Discusses How Marketing Automation Enhances CRM and Putting Your Leads on a Diet by Jason Miller David Taber is a CRM expert and the author of the book, “Salesforce.com Secrets of Success,” which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. David: Marketing automation is a lot newer than SFA systems, and the good ones are a lot more sophisticated than traditional SFA. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012 Our customers say it best - ISM Automation ISM Automation is one of those customers and Tim Ventura had this to say about his LoopFuse experience: “Loopfuse is easy to setup & use , and provides a rich feature set with valuable tools that will benefit the marketing efforts of just about any business. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Thanks Tim! -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 Mega-List of Features in Marketing Automation (That You Won’t Find in CRM) salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM), so why do I need marketing automation ”? Architecture of Marketing Automation versus CRM. CRM systems are designed and optimized for a very different purpose, which is what creates the whitespace for marketing automation vendors (like Marketo). Marketing Automation. Pricing. -
INBOUND SALES NETWORK | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 The 7 Keys to Becoming a Business Development Powerhouse The two key pieces of this system are: Marketing Automation Programs that help you generate and manage leads. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) like Salesforce.com or SugarCRM that help you track and measure sales activities. By contrast, companies with poor alignment saw revenues decline by 4%. Step 1: Define funnel. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2012 East West Manufacturing Uses LoopFuse for Data, Metrics, and Engagement [Video] East West Manufacturing is a global contract manufacturing company based in Atlanta and Andy details how they use LoopFuse to measure their business performance as well as “cast a wide net” through automated email drip campaigns. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. We would love you to try out LoopFuse here. -
LOOPFUSE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012 2012 Marketing Outlook Survey Results Webinar Replay [Video] To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Marketing Automation Thought Leadership budget research survey WebinarWe had a great session yesterday going over the survey results from our recent Marketing Outlook Survey. We would love you to try out LoopFuse here. To find out exactly what LoopFuse does, click here. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 Infor Epiphany Marketing and Interaction Advisor: Good Examples of B2C Marketing Automation Epiphany was one of the high-fliers of an earlier marketing automation boom: launched in 1997 with an initial public offering in 1999, it traded stock for a variety of customer management systems before its price collapsed. Let’s start with the marketing automation product, Infor Epiphany Marketing. has not bought a specific product). -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 Microsoft Buys Marketing Automation Vendor MarketingPilot: Start of Something Big? It has a pretty low profile in the B2B marketing automation world, partly because it serves a mix of B2C and B2B clients but mostly because it started as a marketing operations management system. still doubt Salesforce.com will get the message any time soon, but maybe they'll start to reconsider. Financial terms were not disclosed. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 Building The Marketer’s Platform: Marketo and the Marketing Cloud [VIDEO] I’ve (almost) recovered after a massive Marketo presence at Dreamforce with our friends at salesforce.com. One of the headlines from Dreamforce was obviously salesforce.com’s launch of their Marketing Cloud. discussed all this and more in this interview with salesforce.com’s Aaron Farley. Check it out. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 SetLogik Offers B2B Marketers a Real Marketing Database originally saw SetLogik as a tool to associate marketing leads with sales opportunities, even when they are not connected directly within Salesforce.com. This has been sadly lacking in most B2B marketing automation systems, which supplement the Salesforce.com database with barely-extensible lead profiles and contact histories. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2012 Replay of LoopFuse and Salesforce.com training session [video] LoopFuse OneView can handle marketing automation tasks on its own, but the real value comes when you start pushing qualified leads to your Sales team in a meaningful way. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. CRM Integration Marketing Automation Salesforce.com crm lead management Salesforce.com Integration -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2012 KXEN Packages Automated Predictive Models within Salesforce Apps As I mentioned in my Marketing Automation Beer Goggles post, KXEN introduced a free lead scoring app for Salesforce.com users at Dreamforce. This uses the same automated modeling methods as KXEN’s established on-premise product. The next best action app also relies on data stored within Salesforce.com. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 Create a segmented list as a follow up to your next email campaign To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Lead Management Marketing Automation eMail Marketing email list segmented listWe wanted to highlight a really straightforward and powerful way to increase the performance of your next email campaign by focusing on what you do after sending it. Need help setting this up? -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 Marketing Automation Beer Goggles: What I Think I Learned at Dreamforce I’m writing this on my way home from Dreamforce, the Salesforce.com user conference that has become the primary industry gathering for marketing automation vendors. The theme includes easier connectivity to external data, via standard connectors in general and the Salesforce.com AppExchange in particular. So what did I learn? -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 Breaking: Salesforce.com Announces the Marketing Cloud. So What is It? The “marketing cloud”, which salesforce.com has hinted at for a while, was announced today at Dreamforce ’12. This is good news for marketing automation customers. Marketers who use both Eloqua and salesforce.com will be able to enjoy an enhanced version of the social marketing cloud. So what is the “marketing cloud?”. Get more. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 How Dreamforce Boosts Lead Generation [CHART] With many of our customers using salesforce.com AND also an increasing number of marketers attending, we thought it would be great to see what “effect” Dreamforce had on our customers on lead generation over the past few years. Automated lead nurturing anyone? Well the results were pretty clear. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 Secrets to Successful Marketing Automation [report] The smart folks over at Heinz Marketing have released a new report on the “ Secrets to Successful Marketing Automation.” ” This is required reading if you are considering marketing automation or have implemented a system and are looking to get more out of it. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 The Last Minute Guide to Dreamforce Digital Marketing b2b marketing cloud computing Dreamforce Dreamforce 2012 marketing automation salesforce.comby Jesse Noyes | Tweet this The other day a friend of mine gave me a call. I decided to go to Dreamforce,” he said. My first thought: “Dude, you barely have time!”. Pack Lightly. Bring comfortable but nice clothes. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 Small Batch Marketing - What Microbreweries Can Teach Us About Marketing Automation What can you learn about marketing automation from microbreweries? To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Marketing Automation Thought Leadership beer Marketing small batchTurns out plenty in terms of focus, volume, differentiation, and customer engagement. We agree. but don’t make the only way you communicate. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 ClickDimensions Grows Quickly by Offering B2B Marketing Automation as a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Add-On When I first wrote about ClickDimensions in a February, 2011 post , the concept was intriguing – a marketing automation add-on to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – but the product itself had been available for less than six months and claimed barely 50 clients. This is comparable to standard marketing automation products. Only time will tell. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 Dreamforce ’12: Tap into Marketo’s Social Marketing Experts Executives from our internal marketing, social media and customer teams will provide insight that will enable you to implement everything from content marketing, to marketing automation , community engagement to gamification and social marketing strategies. 3) Building a Business Case for Marketing Automation. Enjoy! 500 list. -
WEBBIQUITY | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012 San Francisco-based Alex Hisaka is Growth Builder at Desk.com, part of the Salesforce.com family. Based in the San Francisco area, Paige is Vice President of Marketing at Aprimo, a fast-growing Saas marketing automation software company acquired by Teradata in January of 2011. That will be our top focus for next year. Stacey Acevero. -
WEBBIQUITY | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012 San Francisco-based Alex Hisaka is Growth Builder at Desk.com, part of the Salesforce.com family. Based in the San Francisco area, Paige is Vice President of Marketing at Aprimo, a fast-growing Saas marketing automation software company acquired by Teradata in January of 2011. That will be our top focus for next year. Stacey Acevero. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 The Marketing Technology Landscape [New Infographic] We’re nicely included in the “Marketing Automation” section in the middle left. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Marketing Automation Thought Leadership marketing landscape supergraphic technology landscapeCan you spot LoopFuse? Technology is just an enabler of those things. Nice work Scott! -
ONPATH | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 OnPath becomes agency partner for Radian6 Radian6 offers the ability to engage with potential customers, measure the impact of social media campaigns, push potential sales leads into Salesforce.com and identify the most influential social media thought leaders. OnPath is also a certified consulting partner for Salesforce , Marketo Marketing Automation and agency partner for Radian6. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012 Why I Go To Dreamforce: Answers from 7 Dreamforce Veterans But why did this event, which was once known as user conference for salesforce.com customers, turn into a premier event for the industry? “I go to Dreamforce to see all the B2B marketing automation vendors and leaders in one place. Was it the sessions? The quality of the speakers? The parties and the music? The networking? -
VIEWPOINT | THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012 PowerViews with Craig Rosenberg: Growth Hacks & Consumerized B2B Software He helped build Salesforce.com with an outbound marketing perspective into the mid-market. He cites the example of a marketing automation company to illustrate how important outbound initiatives are: “Jon Miller from Marketo is one of my favorite writers on lead development. There are all these things we’ve got to do.’ It’s funny. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012 The New Formula for Email Marketing This is a nicely done video from the folks at Salesforce.com that talks about how they are moving from batch and blast email marketing campaigns to more automated email marketing focused on delivering the right message to the right person at the right time. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. and turn it on. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012 How We Automate Our Marketing at LoopFuse with LoopFuse - Part 2 We covered how we use LoopFuse for our own marketing efforts in Part 1 of this two part post which included using the beacon to track site visitors, how we use forms, and our Salesforce.com integration. Lead nurturing is the heart of any good marketing automation system. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 Raab Report: Neolane, Aprimo, and Eloqua Rate Highest for Large Company B2B Marketing Automation Our scoring reflects their need for special features for automated content selection, project management, complex lead scores, and tight control over the rights granted to individual users. Both are general purpose marketing automation systems that serve large numbers of B2C as well as B2B clients. -
LOOPFUSE | THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012 How We Automate Our Marketing at LoopFuse with LoopFuse - Part 1 Customers that use LoopFuse for marketing automation are always looking for better ways to get more out of the system. Even with those sources available, however, there are still plenty of times when people want an actual example of how LoopFuse, Salesforce.com, and their website work together. Registration Forms. Scoring. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 14 Must Attend Dreamforce Sessions for Marketers Hosted by salesforce.com, Dreamforce has turned into the cloud computing event of the year, attracting IT experts, sales folks, marketers and more to San Francisco for four days of high-profile speeches, in-demand musicians, but most of all, the sessions. How Salesforce.com Uses Online Marketing to Grow Our Business. Tuesday. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012 Replay of email lead nurturing training session [Video] We showed a pretty simple email drip campaign and then proceeded to a more advanced LoopFuse + Salesforce.com nurture flow driven by where a prospect is in the sales cycle. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation drip campaign email lead nuturing lead nurturing example trainingEnjoy! -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012 LoopFuse August release (v3.4) now live! Upgraded Salesforce.com Connection : improved event logging and upgraded to latest API. Marketing Automation august release release notesOur August release is now live and we wanted to share the details with everyone: New Tracking Beacon : faster page load times, better performance, & improved tracking. Get your new beacon. -
PAUL GILLIN | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 An Intelligent Approach to Influence Measurement The Social Marketing Automation suite enables customers to identify patterns in public online conversations, extract profile information and create what amounts to custom Klout scores. This information can be imported into CRM and marketing automation packages, easing what is usually a laborious manual process. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012 Are you getting gold medal results from your email lead nurturing efforts? We have a variety of lead flows enabled for our own use and took a look at one that is focused around those who have an interest in using LoopFuse with Salesforce.com specifically around our lead assignment capabilities. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Please, no batch and blast email campaigns. Average open rate: 31%. -
HUBSPOT | MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012 11 Ways to Make Social Media Marketing Less of a Time Suck Now that you have all this content ready and raring to go, dip your toes in some automation to make your life easier. know, I know, social automation is the worst. But you can still automate a good chunk of your publishing using a tool like HubSpot's Social Media tool or HootSuite. Nailed it. Uh, not really. Not too hard, right? -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012 Better Value, Easier to Use Marketing Automation We hear this over and over from our customers and prospects about why they chose us or why they are looking at us as their marketing automation and lead management choice. Marketers are becoming more savvy and those making use of marketing automation systems are the cream of the crop. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. - Have You Refreshed Your Insides Sales Training Program?
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INBLURBS | MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012 Eloqua Announces Chatter Integration The Salesforce.com-owned business network will automatically be integrated into Eloqua’s Marketing Automation (MA) platform free of charge. email marketing Marketing Automation Chatter inside Eloqua.social enterprise app marketing automationEloqua connected me with their product team who gave me a demo. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2012 Private Social Networks and the “Bathroom Moment” Our own CEO likes to refer to Salesforce.com’s Chatter as “my Twitter.”. This is the reason we partnered with Salesforce.com to integrate Chatter, a social networking platform for the enterprise , into our marketing automation platform. by Jesse Noyes | Tweet this Steve Jobs was an insistent man. -
ONPATH | WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012 NEW App - Add To Campaigns (Multiple Campaign Picker) Salesforce.com provides features for adding many people to a single campaign. OnPath is also a certified consulting partner for Salesforce and Marketo Marketing Automation. Check out our new app for #salesforce #cloudforce #enterprise #flexforce developed by our talented Salesforce MVP and Salesforce Developer, Nash Zgonjanin. -
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MATRIX | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012 Dell To Resell Pardot Marketing Automation Dell announced today that it has added Pardot marketing automation to its list of Dell Cloud Business Software applications. The Pardot system costs from $1,000 to $3,000 per month depending on the email volume, file size, and numbers of forms, landing pages, programs, and automation rules. That is some pretty good company to keep. -
IT'S ALL ABOUT REVENUE | MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012 Microsoft’s $1.2 Billion Ticket to “Social Business” Indeed, as Gartner analyst Larry Cannell explained to ComputerWorld , Microsoft has fallen behind enterprise competitors like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com when it comes to cranking out truly social tools. by Heidi Melin | Tweet this If you were wondering when Microsoft was going to join the social party, they’ve shown up in a big way. -
ANNUITAS GROUP | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1 Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. -
ANNUITAS GROUP | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 9 Things Marketers Need from Marketing Automation Vendors and Consultants – Part 1 Approximately 12 years ago, a new technology emerged and a new software category called “marketing automation” was born. Since then, the marketing automation space has grown consistently and significantly, and is now is at the precipice of going mainstream. The best vendor event I ever attended was a Salesforce.com road show. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012 Gartner Group Releases CRM Lead Management Magic Quadrant Our focus remains SMBs along with groups or departments within larger companies looking for an easy to use and fast ROI marketing automation platform. Congratulations to the big enterprise marketing automation vendors recognized in this report and thanks Chris for being focused on this market! -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012 Marketing automation keeps the "Summertime Blues" away Now is the perfect time to make sure your marketing automation system is place to keep in touch with your prospects during the hazy days of summer. Keep on taking advantage of the relationship that Marketing Automation helps you build with your prospects even when you’re not in the office. To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. -
DIGITAL B2B MARKETING | THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012 42 B2B Marketing Acronyms and Abbreviations MAP : Marketing Automation Platform. technology approach to automating elements of marketing communication, lead scoring and lead distribution. SFA : Sales Force Automation. Salesforce.com. Some days B2B marketing discussions seem more like a reading of alphabet soup. If so, add it to the comments (and please define it!), -
LOOPFUSE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012 [Webinar] Leveraging Connection Intelligence with IntroRocket IntroRocket is embedded inside Salesforce.com and there is a free portal for non-sales users. Marketing Marketing Automation Thought Leadership introrocket referrals WebinarIntroRocket focuses on giving salespeople warm introductions for top of the funnel outreach and prospecting activities. About IntroRocket. - Salesforce.com and Oracle Buy Social Marketing Systems: Not the End of Marketing As We Know It
Salesforce.com yesterday announced agreement to buy social media publishing vendor Buddy Media for $689 million, thereby adding another big fluffy piece to its “marketing cloud”. Just for symmetry, it’s worth pointing out that Salesforce.com acquired its own social monitoring system, Radian6 , in March 2011. In a word, no. -
THE EFFECTIVE MARKETER | FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012 Getting Started Guide for Marketing Automation With all the (deserved) hype surrounding marketing automation, is no wonder that many companies, startups especially, are adding the technology as a key component to their marketing activities. But let’s say you got approval and have purchased the marketing automation software of your dreams. Getting Started with Marketing Automation. -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012 The Path to Landing Page Genius [Video] To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Inbound Marketing Lead Capture Marketing Automation Thought Leadership a/b test clever zebo landing pages WebinarJosh & I created a summary of our discussion as a follow up and we wanted to share it with everyone! The best call to action text for your buttons. -
VIEWPOINT | WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012 PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012. My PowerViews guest today is Andrew Gaffney. DemandGen Report on Twitter: @DG_Report. Stay Tuned -
LOOPFUSE | TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 Setting Up a Simple Email Drip Campaign [How To] To add LoopFuse to Salesforce.com, click here. Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation drip campaign email lead nurturing lead nurturing exampleOne email lead nurturing example we recommend to every company that is focused on getting people to sign up or register on their website is the simple Email Drip Campaign. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. -
LOOPFUSE | MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 LoopFuse in the Marketing Automation Times [Podcast] I had the opportunity to catch up with Jason Kort from Marketing Automation Times recently and the result was a nice podcast covering thoughts on marketing automation broadly, how companies can best unlock the value from using it, and how LoopFuse is unique and differentiated in an otherwise pretty noisy market. Enjoy! -
LOOPFUSE | FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 What would you do with 1 million emails? It took us many, many years to hit that milestone which is pretty well aligned with how you are suppose to use marketing automation technology. The great thing about marketing automation is that you are actually doing really, really well when you are sending small numbers of very targeted correspondence all the time. -
MODERN B2B MARKETING | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 Using Big Data as Revenue Driver: Interview with Data.com’s Andy MacMillan All of this data along with company profiles is accessed in the cloud directly in salesforce.com. And why is it important to all of us involved with deploying marketing automation and Revenue Performance Management (RPM) to drive profitable, sustainable growth? Please provide a brief overview of your business. What do you do? -
VIEWPOINT | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 PowerViews with Christopher Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Christopher notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. Today's PowerViews guest is Christopher Hosford. -
VIEWPOINT | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 PowerViews with Chris Hosford – CRM/Marketing Automation/Social Convergence Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the accelerating integration of database technology, sales force automation, marketing automation and social media, Chris notes what has been a mantra for years now appears to be reaching a critical mass. He comments, “Salesforce.com is a good example. | |